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by eddiegroves 3801 days ago
All those eggs from one breeding pair, do insects not need gene diversity for the population to succeed?
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It's possible to successfully breed inbred insects like this, because eventually you can select out all the ones with recessive gene problems (you can get lots of generations quickly with insects). The big issue is that such a homogeneous population is much more susceptible to disease -- a virus or bacteria that can kill one can probably kill them all.
I thought, in my ignorance, that it would be prudent to go after a few more specimens on the rock after they got breeding going on in the zoo?